End of Life Planning

Helping your clients and their families through their most difficult times requires you to be aware of ways to help them make the best of a bad situation. Listen in to hear about insurance and legal decisions you should be making and caregiver resources to help you through the process.

 

Informational Sources:

- What is Hospice: https://www.medicare.gov/what-medicare-covers/what-part-a-covers/how-hospice-works

- https://www.medicareinteractive.org/get-answers/medicare-covered-services/hospice/drug-coverage-under-hospice#:~:text=After%20you%20elect%20hospice%2C%20Medicare,not%20your%20Part%20D%20plan.  

- https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/what-are-palliative-care-and-hospice-care#:~:text=Hospice%20is%20an%20approach%20to,in%20a%20separate%20hospice%20center

- https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/analysis-of-recent-national-trends-in-medicaid-and-chip-enrollment/

- https://www.kff.org/mental-health/issue-brief/10-things-to-know-about-medicaid/

- https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/benefits/hospice-benefits/index.html 

-  Respite program locator map: https://archrespite.org/us-map    

- https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html

- https://eldercare.acl.gov/Public/Index.aspx